“Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?”
Job reminds God that God made him from dust and will return him to dust, invoking the creation account in Genesis and the finite character of human existence. The reminder of human mortality becomes an implicit appeal for mercy toward the transient. The beginning and end in dust frame the brief interval of life.
Church Fathers on Job 10:9
My soul is weary of my life. Now whensoever the present life has once begun to grow tasteless, and the love of the Creator to become sweet, the soul inflames itself against self, that it may accuse self for the sins, wherein it formerly vindicated itself, being ignorant of the things above. Whence he yet further adds with propriety, I will let my speech go against myself. He as it were employs his speech in behalf of himself, who tries to defend by excuses the evil things…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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